The problem with the Bay City Rollers is that they tried to have a meaningful career. Their life span, after all, divides neatly into three very separate parts -- the first few years of local underachievement, living off the glories of a one-off U.K. hit in 1971 ("Keep on Dancing"); two years of absolute supremacy, bookended by the "Remember" single and Dedication album; and two more of increasingly desperate floundering, as they tried to escape their (admittedly ghastly) image and establish the   [ read more ]

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The first Bay City Rollers album to see simultaneous world-wide release was also, in the eyes of the tartan faithful, the first to reveal a serious crack in the band's hitherto impregnable armor. Founder Alan Longmuir had been eased out in favor of teenage wunderkind Ian Mitchell, songwriters Bill Martin and Phil Coulter had moved on to groom other would-be teeny bop idols, and Dedication was the Rollers giant step toward both musical and critical credibility. They could have pulled it    [ read more ]

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The first Bay City Rollers album to see simultaneous world-wide release was also, in the eyes of the tartan faithful, the first to reveal a serious crack in the band's hitherto impregnable armor. Founder Alan Longmuir had been eased out in favor of teenage wunderkind Ian Mitchell, songwriters Bill Martin and Phil Coulter had moved on to groom other would-be teeny bop idols, and Dedication was the Rollers giant step toward both musical and critical credibility. They could have pulled it    [ read more ]

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The end was nigh as the Bay City Rollers prepared to record Elevator in 1979; indeed, many people might have believed they had already come and gone. Les McKeown was out, replaced by the unknown Duncan Faure, and Arista, the band's label for five years, had lost interest long ago. If it hadn't been for a slight contretemps over the LP's sleeve design -- the Rollers chose a picture of a pill, the label replaced it with a mellow band shot -- Elevator might have passed without even    [ read more ]

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Give a Little Love: The Best of the Bay City Rollers is a U.K. compilation that focuses primarily on the Scottish power pop group's radio hits and myriad cover tunes. There's little here for the average fan that isn't already available on less pricey single-disc collections like Arista's Definitive Collection or 1995's Absolute Rollers: The Very Best of the Bay City Rollers, and the lack of album cuts (specifically originals) kind of defeats the purpose of a big two-disc set, but all of the h   [ read more ]

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By 1977, the Bay City Rollers had been playing the teen idol game for most of the decade. The group's members were understandably itching to break out of their teeny-bopper pop straightjacket and attempted to make such a change on It's a Game. Sadly, the group lacked the clout to make a full stylistic turnaround, so this album, half-penned by outside writers, represents an uneasy compromise between their classic pop/rock sound and the more AOR-oriented music they aspired to make. The most notabl   [ read more ]

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